Derrick Rose slams NBA owners for being greedy – NBA Lockout News
Chicago Bulls talisman Derrick Rose has cut a frustrated figure throughout the NBA lockout, but his anger seems to have gone a level up in recent days.
The NBA’s youngest ever Most Valuable Player award winner is not at all happy with the owners over their conduct during the labour dispute, and slammed them this Tuesday for being “dead wrong”.
The league and players are at loggerheads over a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), basically because the owners are demanding way too much from the players. Consider this, the NBA players earned a guaranteed 57 percent
of the Basketball Related Income (BRI) under the previous CBA, but the owners want them to take a huge cut and go down to 47 percent.
They last offered 50 percent and refused to talk if the National Basketball Players Association did not agree to it. All the while more and more regular season games are being lost and fans become more fed up each passing day.
Both sides have been accused of being greed; that didn’t fly well with Rose,
"Greed is not on our side," Rose said, fuming at the NBA owners. "We're not greedy. ... What they're trying to do to us is dead wrong."
He said he understands the fans frustration and shares it too. Rose has been working for his community during the lockout and has always emphasized the fact that fans are the most important part of the equation.
He said it was very worrying for him that days continued to skip by without an agreement.
"The most difficult part is, every day you wake up and you see games cancelled," he said. "The fans are fiending for it. I know we're itching to play. And I know that it'll hurt the game because our fans are loyal and for us not
to be playing, I think it'll hurt them more."
Many NBA players have been playing various pro-am or exhibition games in the summer to try and stay in touch with the fan base. Rose, hasn’t been visible in too many, but he has participated in a tour and is expected to join another
one soon.
He has said previously that he doesn’t fancy too many pickup games and is holding out for the real deal; the NBA season. He did though make it clear that the players have given up enough and although he wants to get out on an NBA
court as soon as possible, he will only do it when a fair deal is reached.
"I know that everybody is waiting for us to play, but it has to be on the right terms,”
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